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		Billy Higgins, one of the best-loved and most-recorded drummers in postwar jazz, died on May 3, 2001, at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood, Calif. He had been in failing health and was awaiting his second liver transplant.
		In the mid-fifties, Higgins and Cherry befriended the avant-garde sax player/composer Ornette Coleman.
		Higgins was on the faculty of the jazz studies program at the University of California at Los Angeles, and taught at World Stage, a Monday-night program for budding musicians in the Leimert Park section of Los Angeles that he founded with Kamau Daa'oud, a poet.
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=26nw02 (732 words)

	Billy Higgins, jazz drummer for 5 decades
		Higgins was admitted to the hospital recently, reportedly with pneumonia, which was believed to be the cause of death.
		Higgins was the most active drummer in jazz, playing and recording with the likes of John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Milt Jackson, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Lee Morgan, Art Pepper and Joshua Redman.
		Higgins, who roved freely through jazz after leaving the seminal Coleman ensemble, adapted to the changing tides with ease, in part because of his effervescent manner, in part because his capacity to drive a rhythm section with an irresistible sense of swing was beyond genre.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/04/MNL233531.DTL&type=printable (445 words)

	village voice > music > by Gary Giddins
		Billy Higgins, who died May 3 of liver and kidney failure, did not, which is one reason his passing hurts, even though he had been ill for years and was awaiting his third liver transplant.
		Higgins is on one of the 1960s' key jazz hits, Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder," and yet no one associates him with its hit-making beat, partly because he didn't latch onto it, hoping for some kind of commercial crutch.
		Higgins was busted for drugs and lost his cabaret card; Blackwell, who had skipped bail with his wife after they had been imprisoned in New Orleans on a charge of interracial marriage, took his place.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0120/giddins.php (1243 words)

	Billy Higgins: 1936-2001
		Higgins was able to master all of them, but became particularly associated with the musicians who were extending bop in fresh directions.
		Higgins had returned to live in Los Angeles in 1978, and in the late 1980s he joined forces with poet Kamau Daaood to launch the World Stage, a store front venue for workshops, community activities and concerts, which has supported the activities of both writers and musicians.
		Higgins and Haden were the generating force behind Ornette Coleman, a "fl West Coast" altoman out of Los Angeles, who, in the late '50s, with (fl West Coast) Don Cherry on Pakistani pocket trumpet completing the quartet, developed the first major new sound since early bebop in the mid '40s.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=989148367 (1960 words)

	ECM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billy Higgins, who had been battling ill-health with great stoicism and good humour for years, died four months after the session.
		Higgins’ affinity, as a drummer, for Charles Lloyd’s musical universe has been persuasively demonstrated on three previous ECM discs: Voice In The Night (recorded 1998) and The Water Is Wide and Hyperion With Higgins (both 1999).
		Billy Higgins was, from 1977 onward, a most dedicated follower of Islam, while Lloyd has for years been a student of Vedanta.
	www.ecmrecords.com /Background/Background_1878.php (733 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE - Billy higgins Quartet Jazzes up Royce Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Higgins, the most recorded drummer in jazz history and a "Best Instrumental Composition" Grammy winner for "Call Sheet Blues," flawlessly kept the beat all night long and excited the crowd with numerous solos.
		At the beginning of the second set, Higgins was presented with a mayoral commendation for his work as a musician and also for being a positive cultural force in the city of Los Angeles.
		After a short interlude that featured the World Stage poets reciting their compositions to a vigorous drum background, the lineup of the Billy Higgins Quartet that began the night came back on stage to finish what they had started.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /db/issues/00/01.18/ae.royce.html (611 words)

	Stereophile: Returning the Gift
		January 28, 2001 —; Drummer Billy Higgins started his remarkable career backing up R&B musicians such as Amos Milburn and Bo Diddley around the LA area before embarking on his jazz path with the Jazz Messengers (led by Don Cherry and saxophonist James Clay) and Dexter Gordon.
		Higgins' playing style embraces the seemingly contradictory concepts of restraint and abandon—his sophisticated, loosely swinging style is muscular and propulsive, but never overwhelming.
		Billy gives everything he has to his community and those around him who are in need.
	www.stereophile.com /news/10957 (543 words)

	Billy HIggins: We're really blessed
		Higgins had made sure of that, cajoling and pleading and praising in the most persuasive way.
		Higgins nodded to a youngster in the front row, who raced upstairs and brought back Higgins' talking drum that he got in Africa, and a half-dozen drummers were off for another hour of deep and soulful rhythmic discourse, drums only, playing till everyone except Higgins was exhausted and replete.
		Higgins was a member of the jazz faculty at UCLA and was awarded a Jazz Master's Fellowship in 1997 by the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.tonyspage.com /'We.re_really_blessed'.htm (1062 words)

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		Billy Higgins didn’t need to play drums or even be present to make his influence felt.
		“Billy Higgins was a magnet, an energy for a rebirth of musical activity in L.A.,” says Adam Rudolph, a percussionist in Eternal Wind who, upon arriving here with Don Cherry in 1979 (and remaining), was added to the multitude who experienced Higgins’ generosity.
		In January, Higgins did manage to pack a load of instruments — not just trap drums but also the many world-derived string, wind and percussion instruments on which he was proficient — up to Santa Barbara, where he joined old friend saxophonist-flutist Charles Lloyd for several days of informal duetting and recording.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=24680 (345 words)

	Jazz drummer Billy Higgins dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ebullient Billy Higgins, the most recorded jazz drummer of the last 50 years, died Thursday in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood after a protracted battle with liver disease.
		Higgins eventually left Coleman, but remained in New York City where he seemed to be everywhere.
		Higgins became well known in California for his encouragement and education of young jazz players.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/higg-m05.shtml (503 words)

	KFSR 90.7 FM - KFSR's Tribute to Billy Higgins
		Billy’s association with Lee Morgan was one of the most prolific and rewarding in all of jazz.
		However, in the case of Billy Higgins, the 1970’s saw the birth of his continuing association with pianist and composer Cedar Walton, which today is one of the most famous, productive and long lasting musical partnerships in jazz.
		Billy is also a faculty member of the UCLA Jazz Studies program and the founder of the Annual Day of the Drum festival, a Los Angeles event which brings together percussionists from around the world.
	www.csufresno.edu /kfsr/Jazz_higgins_article.html (1839 words)

	Billy Higgins, (1936-2001) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in Los Angeles in 1936, over the years Billy Higgins proved to be one of the most consistently inventive of post-bop drummers.
		Higgins began his remarkably fruitful association with the pianist Cedar Walton, and also released two albums as a leader.
		Higgins was also involved in a myriad of activites devoted to the promotion, preservation, and growth of jazz: teaching workshops, clinics, and master classes on drums and improvisation.
	amb.nbu.bg /jazz/notes/Billy_Higgins.htm (524 words)

	Billy Higgins - Billy Higgins Quintet: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although Billy Higgins [+] appeared on literally hundreds of sessions as a sideman, the famous drummer didn't record nearly as many albums under his own name.
		This time, Higgins is in the driver's seat, leading a cohesive post-bop/hard bop quintet that boasts Harold Land [+] on tenor sax, Oscar Brashear [+] on trumpet, Cedar Walton [+] on piano, and David Williams [+] on bass.
		Higgins made a very wise move when he hired Brashear to play on this fine album, which is without a dull moment.
	music.com /release/billy_higgins_quintet/1 (334 words)

	RollingStone.com: Billy Higgins : Billy Higgins Dies : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Higgins was admitted to the Daniel Freeman Hospital a few days earlier to be treated for pneumonia.
		Higgins was born on October 11, 1936 in Los Angeles and got his start playing RandB in his hometown.
		Last June, Higgins appeared with Coleman and bassist Charlie Haden for the crown jewel of the Knitting Factory's Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, a triumphant trio performance titled "Change of the Century" before thousands at New York City's Battery Park.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5931640 (368 words)

	Higgins, Billy -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9383499?tocId=9383499 (752 words)

	CMT.com : Billy Higgins : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Higgins and Blackwell were both on Coleman's monumental Free Jazz album, and Higgins would participate in occasional reunions with Ornette Coleman through the years.
		Based in Los Angeles during most of the 1980s and '90s, Billy Higgins became an inspiration to younger musicians (including the members of the B Sharp Quartet and Black/Note), opening the World Stage as a performance venue and recording label.
		In the mid-'90s, Higgins underwent a successful liver transplant, but by 2001 was playing out less, hampered again by liver problems.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/higgins_billy/bio.jhtml (317 words)

	KFSR 90.7 FM - KFSR's Tribute to Billy Higgins
		As the most recorded drummer in jazz history, Billy's impact on the music is hard to ignore and his many recordings as a sideman and as a leader will serve to reward listeners for as long as people listen to America's true art form.
		All those who knew Billy would agree that he truly was a great spirit, and his love of music and of life touched people all throughout the world.
		"The Artistry of Billy Higgins" - By Bruill Crohn @ Jazzradio.org
	www.csufresno.edu /kfsr/Jazz_Billy_Higgins.html (742 words)

	John Rapson \| Water And Blood: The Billy Higgins Improvisations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When this project began in 2000, drummer Billy Higgins was dealing with failing kidneys and liver.
		His studio efforts, mostly in duo with bassist Roberto Miranda, were recorded with two simple precepts, pieces are to be three to five minutes and each shall be as different as possible from the next.
		Higgins was never a loud drummer, like Elvin or Art, but he made his snare known through a quick and discerning touch.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0902_035.htm (397 words)

	Salute to Billy Higgins highlights Healdsburg jazz fest
		Higgins had been billed as the honoree of this year's festival, as well as a performer at the opening gala dinner and at two later spots.
		She also began booking Higgins and others at venues in town, and the drummer was her first choice for two of the inaugural sessions of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival in 1999.
		Higgins, who encouraged young players through his World Stage operation in Los Angeles, also appeared both years with the festival's education program, bringing jazz to public schools in Healdsburg and Geyserville.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/25/NB156083.DTL&type=travel (968 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Charles Lloyd/ Billy Higgins, Which Way Is East
		In 1999 the American saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded the sessions released as The Water Is Wide - a partnership with Billy Higgins, one of the great jazz drummers and a key participant on some of Ornette Coleman's most significant works.
		The occasion was meant to be Lloyd's celebration of Higgins, but as the albums were released they ended up being valedictions for him too: Higgins died in 2001.
		Higgins plays regular drums with Lloyd here, but also sings blues, sambas and African music with his guitar, as well as exploring the possibilities of a kind of free-improvised world-music.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/review/0,1169,1188259,00.html (300 words)

	University Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first Billy Higgins-Fresno State Jazz Festival April 30 and May 1 on campus will feature an impressive line-up of world-renowned jazz artists and dozens of college and high school bands for two days of competition and performances.
		In the first public performance on Friday at 7 p.m., Higgins will be joined by guest artists John Hicks on piano, Peter Leitch on guitar, and David Williams on bass in the Concert Hall of the Music Building.
		"Billy Higgins is one of the most respected and loved jazz artists by fellow musicians and audiences around the world," Collins said.
	www.csufresno.edu /journal/vol2/419/jazz.html (430 words)

	African American Registry: Drummer with variety, Billy Higgins
		Billy Higgins* was born on this date in 1936.
		In the mid-‘50s, Higgins began rehearsing with Ornette Coleman; his first recordings were with Coleman in '58, as well as sessions with Red Mitchell.
		A lifetime Los Angeles resident, Higgins was mentor to the young musicians who formed the B Sharp Quartet and Black Note.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1214/Drummer_with_variety_Billy_Higgins (182 words)

	village voice > music > Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins, Which Way Is East by Larry Blumenfeld
		In 1997, after two successive liver transplants, Billy Higgins brought his joyful smile and liberating rhythms back to jazz.
		Higgins pounds playful patterns on a wooden slit drum.
		A final track finds Higgins singing wordlessly and strumming guitar, no doubt grinning that grin again.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0418/blumenfeld.php (224 words)

	Billy Higgins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billy Higgins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936–May 3, 2001) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles) jazz (Someone who plays a drum) drummer.
		He played mainly (Click link for more info and facts about free jazz) free jazz and (Click link for more info and facts about hard bop) hard bop.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/billy_higgins.htm (200 words)

	Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins \| Which Way Is East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Higgins had been in and out of hospitals, battling liver failure, and he and Lloyd knew their time together was short.
		Higgins plays not only drum set, but also wood box, hand drums, and multiple stringed instruments, including guitar.
		When Lloyd and Higgins go toe to toe on alto sax and traps, the result is unadulterated free jazz.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=14033 (525 words)

	Remembering Billy Higgins
		We are all extremely fortunate to have had Billy Higgins on the planet with us.
		I photographed Billy on many occasions since....on stage, in the studio, in a classroom full of children who marveled at his spirit.
		His recordings span over four decades, and while Billy will definitely be missed, thankfully his music lives on through his extensive discography.
	www.gallery41.com /Respect/RememberingBillyHiggins.htm (351 words)

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